Potato

@Potato@sh.itjust.works

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Potato,

Who the hell sees ads? If you choose to let your browser run them, well, what do you want?

Potato,

Three ad blockers? One of them is fake and serving you ads. Or is allowing ads through because they are getting kickbacks. Or one of your other add-ons is serving that crap. Purge all that shit and start over.

Potato,

Eh, then if your online ID is compromised you’re in trouble. Can’t just burn it and start over.

Potato,

I have one 12 TB and two 14 internal hard drives. I also have 6 external drives (two 12 TB, four 14 TB) for 2x redundant backups. All my new stuff and dynamic documents are stored on the 12 TB drive (so that I only have to update the backups for that drive frequently). When it gets fullish I migrate content over to the storage drives and update those backups. I’ve been doing this maybe twice a year.

I also have my dynamic files, photos, docs etc, set to auto backup twice daily to a remote backup.

I only delete content to replace with higher quality.

I haven’t bothered with any sort of raid in nearly two decades. You need proper backups regardless so what’s the point? If I have to run half my Plex library off a USB backup drive for a week while a new drive runs badsector and syncs up… who cares? Merging the drives as a JBOB is nifty and all, but adds complexity across the board without meaningful gain.

Potato,

It’s back!

New Coffee Arrivals! (lemmy.world)

I won’t be trying any until tomorrow as they just arrived this evening but I’m excited and couldn’t wait until I actually brewed them. It’ll be my first whole bean coffee. I’ll probably need to bust out my small French press though so I can get the grinder figured out with smaller brews. They’re only 4 oz sample bags...

Potato,

I’d love to hear how the decaf is.

Potato,

Fantastic. Too bad the rest of the film collection didn’t get a remaster.

Potato,

I hope so. In any case it will be nice to get the full series in HD with less compression than streaming. Oh, and I hope the commentary from the DVDs makes it to the Blu-ray.

Potato,

Frankly 3rd space and Call to Arms were my favorites.

Potato,

It is both the best and worst idea humans ever conceived.

Potato,

You want a disgusting AI generated content mess? Because that’s how you get a disgusting AI generated content mess.

Potato,

If they don’t call it Green Lizard Enterprise Linux I’ll be disappointed.

Potato,

Stop trying to make communism happen. It’s not going to happen.

Potato,

sucked big time,but not because it was planned.

No no, it’s definitely coincidence that all other planned national economics have sucked too.

Potato,

You say that like demolition and building a new structure aren’t fucking expensive. Old buildings are reused for new things all the time.

How does this instance feel about this growing pact against federating with Meta? (fedipact.online)

Meta/Instagram launched a new product called Threads today (working title project92). It adds a new interface for creating text posts and replying to them, using your Instagram account. Of note, Meta has stated that Threads plans to support ActivityPub in the future, and allow federation with ActivityPub services. If you...

Potato,

While I’m generally opposed to defederation as a general rule, I’m also old enough to have suffered through Microsoft’s Embrace Extend Extinguish paradigm. Never again. Absolutely no federation with megacorp instances.

Potato,

Go banana.

Potato,

Nay

Potato,

A better option might be pirating over i2p but I have not tried that yet.

Potato,

Agreed. While there are cases where de-federation is needed it's an option of last resort. The risk of balkanization is too great.

Potato, (edited )

Only a minority would go through the trouble of creating a second account just to troll

I have a lot of accounts. I have an account here, I have a Reddit account, one at Facebook, Twitter, etc. I have a password manager filled with more accounts than I could name if I had to. If this space balkanizes then I'll have accounts covering most of the space. The assholes will too.

In some ways not defederating might be smarter from a troll management perspective. Banning an account (from another instance) from posting here while leaving them able see content would likely result in fewer trolls just making accounts here than if they had to make an account to just see the content. Just shadowban the nazis and the tankies and the other bastards rather than making a big concern out of the existence of the other instances.

It would be good if we could ban content from other instances from showing up in "All" without full defederation though. And that's not even entirely about bad actors. I don't want to defederate from lemmynsfw but I also don't want it in my All.

Potato,

Ah, I stand corrected. I did not realize users from defederated instances could still subscribe and view content new content. I thought updates ended at the time of defederation.

Potato,

I just subbed to something on Beehaw. Worked fine! Thanks for letting me know. I really thought defederation was a much more aggressive split.

Potato, (edited )

I suspect there is no objectively right way to single out instances for exclusion to maintain a healthy community. There are clearly cases where it is necessary. An instance set up plainly as a place to automated spam needs to go. But we will see many edge cases as well, and these edge cases can end up being community defining for better or worse.

I might suggest, in addition to the existence of a well defined set of rules, putting de-federation from another instance, if there are objections, to a vote in the Agora, with a respectable supermajority (maybe 2/3) being needed to realize the de-federation. Violation of the rules justifies putting the instance on trial for being a crappy federation partner. But if no consensus can be found to that effect then, well, that's how it goes.

Potato,

Nay

Anonymity, as a general rule, is something we should work to get back. Email is just one small hurtle to overcome in a registration process, sure, for both good and bad actors. It's not a way of screening bad actors (human or bot alike).

A captcha, combined with an application with a list of manually reviewed questions if needed, would be best if bots and bastards become a problem. I wonder if there would be a good way of delegating the review process to volunteers.

Perhaps provisional approval, followed by posting in a welcome/introduction thread? Anyone failing to post or who gets their post downvoted is purged?

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